Got this response from the Menai Heritage Society:
From: Menai Heritage
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 11:01 AM
To: Paul W Betts
Subject: Re: Bridgekeepers, caretakers, superintendents, toll collectors
Dear Paul
Thank you for your email.
I'm afraid our museum is currently closed due to the Covid19 crisis, and Trustees are only meeting remotely once a week or so.
I'm afraid therefore there will be a delay in our being able to respond more fully-which we will attempt to do once the situation eases.
I hope you can appreciate the difficulties we're currently facing.
Best wishes
Gill Williams
Thomas Telford Centre Manager
On 30 April 2020 at 15:36 Paul W Betts <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello from across the pond!
My g-g-grandmother Esther Knight (nee Nash, previously Betts) was married to William Knight in Bangor in 1885. He is listed there as “Caretaker” and his residence is listed as “Toll house, Menai Bridge”. In the 1891 census, he is listed as “Superintendent of the Menai Suspension Bridge”. He died at the Menai Bridgehouse in Oct 1897 as his occupation on the death certificate was ship’s carpenter. Various newspaper accounts after his wife’s death by suicide refer to him superintendent and “toll collector”. Are the terms “toll collector”, “superintendent”, “caretaker” and bridgekeeper” used interchangeably? Do you have records of the various people in that (those) roles? There are newspaper articles showing other toll collectors from the bridge during that same time, so it is somewhat confusing to me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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COVID 19 makes Menai records unavailable
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I have the census enumeration for the ship, but I cannot anywhere find Anglesey or Holyhead. Everything else is as you have written. Is this a different enumeration?
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Thanks!
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